On my monitor the e-m5 picture seems to be too red and the canon picture (while much better) seems a bit blue but significantly better. You also seem to have strong reflection with the e-m5; question: is the test representative of the difference between the two cameras or is it bias towards the canon ?
rsolti13 wrote:
Bob - nice sets you have posted from NL. I particularly like the tunnel shot and the b/w right after. Looks like biking is huge there
Nice shots yourself! Biking is not merely big in NL, it's a way of life. It's more a mode of transportation rather than pleasure biking. I lived there for six months last year and collected enough bike shots that I made a Blurb book called the Land of Fiets.
Jae - nice set with the PL25. Definitely one of my favorites in this format. And you captured my favorite building in all of NYC . . . the Chrysler building! Love that shot.
rji2goleez wrote:
Nice shots yourself! Biking is not merely big in NL, it's a way of life. It's more a mode of transportation rather than pleasure biking. I lived there for six months last year and collected enough bike shots that I made a Blurb book called the Land of Fiets.
Bob, very cool book. Are you happy with the quality from Blurb? I have done a book thru iPhoto and a few at some other crappy places....Blurb looks like a much better (cheaper) option
I haven't tried much other than Blurb and am generally happy with the results. I'm sure there's better but the costs go up exponentially. Apple does a real good job as well but I don't like that I have to get my images into iPhoto.
Overall, Blurb does a good job of balancing quality and cost.
Yes ... wishful thinking indeed. If you can live with MF and shooting only wide-open at f1.8 it may just do the job, but it will not function as well as the 85/1.8 on a Canon body. The 75/1.8 is an awesome lens and it is IMO the best m43 lens in terms of sharpness and it's ability to knock the background out of focus. It's extremely well built and breathtakingly handsome. I will take this lens with me to my grave!
juju1958 wrote:
rsolti13 Not what I wanted to see quite this soon, that 75 looks a bit too good. I'll dream a little while longer.
From today canon EF 85 f1.8 , I thought I would make do with this over the 75 , maybe wishful thinking.
bobbytan wrote:
Yes ... wishful thinking indeed. If you can live with MF and shooting only wide-open at f1.8 it may just do the job, but it will not function as well as the 85/1.8 on a Canon body. The 75/1.8 is an awesome lens and it is IMO the best m43 lens in terms of sharpness and it's ability to knock the background out of focus. It's extremely well built and breathtakingly handsome. I will take this lens with me to my grave!
It has arrived! I just received the 75/1.8 and snapped a quick couple of shots from my office. Can't wait to really put it through some paces . . .
bobbytan I have an adapter with aperture built in. Not ideal but it works fairly well with lenses where the rear element is close to the rear of the lens. The macro 100f2.8 and 400mm f5.6 it does vignette very early on as these lenses have quite a lengthy tube built in, for obvious reasons. Lenses like the 50 and 85 It does give a decent amount of depth of field.
Bob enjoy it over the week end I would respect your opinions.
Here's one today with the Oly 60 macro. This is at 1:1, f/4.5, 1/60s, ISO 800, handheld natural light (gotta love that 5-axis IS). Cropped slightly from the full frame.
WOW ... that's an amazing capture, Julian! Very nice. What lens and what aperture?
juju1958 wrote:
bobbytan I have an adapter with aperture built in. Not ideal but it works fairly well with lenses where the rear element is close to the rear of the lens. The macro 100f2.8 and 400mm f5.6 it does vignette very early on as these lenses have quite a lengthy tube built in, for obvious reasons. Lenses like the 50 and 85 It does give a decent amount of depth of field.
Bob enjoy it over the week end I would respect your opinions.
1:1 @ 1/60 hand-held? That is amazing! IBIS is Woohoo!
Jman13 wrote:
Here's one today with the Oly 60 macro. This is at 1:1, f/4.5, 1/60s, ISO 800, handheld natural light (gotta love that 5-axis IS). Cropped slightly from the full frame.
Well, the 75/1.8 looks like it's just an incredible lens. I shot a few frames on my way home from work. Nothing spectacular but I cannot believe how sharp this lens is. It's early in my testing but I think this beats the PL25 and the OLY45. Adding sharpening in PP was almost unnecessary! Very impressive piece of glass. More images and testing to come.
rji2goleez wrote:
Julian, Jordan - splendid shots!
Well, the 75/1.8 looks like it's just an incredible lens. I shot a few frames on my way home from work. Nothing spectacular but I cannot believe how sharp this lens is. It's early in my testing but I think this beats the PL25 and the OLY45. Adding sharpening in PP was almost unnecessary! Very impressive piece of glass. More images and testing to come.
Thanks! Yeah, the Oly 75 is one of the best lenses I've ever used. Aside from a smidge of PF on high contrast edges and some minor LoCA, it's essentially flawless. Wonderful color, beautiful bokeh and sharp as sharp can be.
Love the photos here, great work everybody, will be posting some more as soon as I get out and shoot some! Will be trying the camera with in-door horse jumping competition tomorrow together with a Nikon AF 180 2.8 lens (longest I have with fast aperture) as well as a Nikon MF 100mm 2.8 E series. Will see which one works best or if both will be too tight.
Biggest fear is there will be much too little light in there.
More on the 75/1.8. I know others have said it before but this lens is definitely the sharpest I've seen in this format. It may rival the sharpness of the Zeiss Makro-Planars and the bokeh appears to be quite good as well. Here are a couple of shots and their (near) 100% crops.
Bob you mention about the 75 being sharp. I have found since getting the OM-D that I hardly bother to sharpen. If at all on most pics. Camera is set to shot raw only, warm picture mode off , sharpening and noise reduction off.
